Jackson County's commuter rail proposal has suddenly stalled out, ending for now County Executive Mike Sanders' hope of having a sales tax election this year to finance his $650 million, multimodal transit plan...

Yesterday, the Federal Railroad Administration made it official with this entry into the Federal Register: It now wants to know how you feel about a proposed passenger-rail line linking Oklahoma City with Brownsville, or thereabouts, with Dallas and Fort Worth among the proposed stops...

Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) officials and other dignitaries yesterday marked the start of the next stage of tunnel construction for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway extension at the future Highway 407 Station...

Urban planners, transportation engineers, and other public health professionals need accurate counts of bicyclists and pedestrians to help inform transportation planning and investments that support physical activity, such as walkways and bicycle facilities...

A multibillion- rand "mini city" could soon spring up 32km from central Cape Town. Six years in the planning, Wescape, the city's biggest urban development project yet, is set to be built near Melkbosstrand on the city's north-western edge and will connect Atlantis to the city...

Studies are underway to recommend how to redevelop the neighborhoods of more than a dozen MetroLink light-rail stations - including two that don't yet exist - to make them more walkable and transit-friendly...

Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's New Media Director and Chief Cartographer, collects news stories and blog posts about transit and transit-oriented development from around the country and posts them at TheDirectTransfer.com. Jeff then takes the top 10 articles in each of five categories and sends that out as Other Side of the Tracks email newsletter. The content of that email is then posted here.